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The Council Party wins big

by James Leonard and John Hilton

posted 8/3/2010

They were breaking out the champagne at Cafe Zola Tuesday night, but is was for consolation, not celebration: the opposition city council candidates who gathered there all lost. The percentages hardly changed all night as the precincts came in: the incumbents' victory margins ranged from the decisive (Sandi Smith's 58 percent in Ward 1) to the overwhelming

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